Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist often called Beeple, has positioned himself on the middle of the pack — actually — together with his newest viral set up at Artwork Basel Miami Seashore, and there’s nonetheless time to see it by means of Sunday.

His “Common Animals” venture options $100,000 robotic canines outfitted with hyper-realistic heads resembling Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, alongside artwork legends Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. The robotic canines roam a plexiglass pen, capturing pictures by means of chest-mounted cameras which might be processed by AI after which primarily pooped out, according to the WSJ. Of the prints produced, 256 embody QR codes that provide collectors a free NFT, distributed in luggage labeled “Excrement Pattern.”

Beeple additionally included himself on this unique group, a transfer the Charleston-based artist himself known as “ballsy.” His self-portrait canine offered first, stunning even Beeple, he informed the Journal.

The venture marks a minimum of the second time Winkelmann has turn into the artwork world’s most important character. 4 years in the past, his digital collage offered at Christie’s for $69 million, serving to to gas an NFT increase that may peak a 12 months later earlier than largely imploding.